Do you ever wonder how some researchers can understand technical seminar talks and ask inquisitive questions? You probably never formally learned how to effectively listen and evaluate important technical information... Read more »
Academics are increasingly asked to engage with public actors from policymakers to journalists. Rarely, however, are academics given any guidance or strategies for doing so. In this workshop, Dr. Rashawn... Read more »
This course will introduce you to extracting structured data from web pages, also known as “scraping” the pages. We will use the R programming language. The first portion of the course will introduce basic HTML, CSS selectors, Developer Tools in Google Chrome, and the R packages used for web scraping. The second portion will consist... Read more »
Join us on the first Tuesday of every month for Carolina Science Cafe, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s free, current science awareness program. For our upcoming event, we will be welcoming Dr.... Read more »
Qualtrics allows users to build complex surveys, distribute them, and analyze the responses all from one place. In this course, we will cover basic Qualtrics functions including creating some of... Read more »
This course will provide participants with a broad overview of considerations and approaches for capturing sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). This includes examining the current best practices and approaches,... Read more »
Join the Undergraduate Consulting Club (UCC) for a day of networking with 10+ firms and attend workshops to help you prepare for recruiting, interviewing, and consulting. The day will be... Read more »
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Please join us for "Community-Based Primary Health Care in Low Resource Areas," a panel discussion with speakers from Curamericas Global. Contact Caroline McKay with questions.
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Gillings on the Ground (GoG), is a free, six-week virtual "mini-course" hosted by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Through weekly sessions with community partners and UNC faculty... Read more »
The Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium (INSS) is an annual translational nutrition science conference. This conference will build on the dialogue that began in their first three symposia to develop best practices for translational nutrition science and to generate ideas for proposals and collaborative projects, which will lead public health, therapeutic and clinical efforts to reduce obesity and its... Read more »
This workshop will present proven strategies for mapping out a dissertation completion plan in any discipline. Workshop participants will learn how to develop relational success with the dissertation chair and committee, identify and delimit the dissertation topic, undertake a disciplined approach to the review of literature and become familiar with the essential chapter development of... Read more »
Although graduate school teaches you many things, many Ph.D. students complete their dissertations having never been fully trained in academic publishing. How does academic publishing actually work? Where should you publish your research? How do you actually get papers accepted in strong academic journals? In this talk, we will discuss several major ideas in academic... Read more »
Focus groups are commonly used to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs. This class will prepare prospective students to organize and moderate focus groups. Students will learn the most appropriate uses of focus groups, how to segment and recruit audiences, how to develop a moderator’s guide, and how to moderate focus groups. The class... Read more »
This short course will demonstrate the capabilities of the PC version of ATLAS.ti (v 23), a qualitative analysis software program for coding and interpreting qualitative data. ATLAS.ti also provides numerous options for attaching memos and comments to text segments, documents, and codes. We will demonstrate how to import textual data, create and apply codes, write... Read more »
The Gillings School is hosting a Zoom training for Active Shooter and Critical Incident Response this Wednesday, from 2:30-3:30pm. This training is lead by Sgt. James David of the UNC-CH Police Department. Please register at https://unc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsceiorz0vGdZxdVyCycfV7ACsWLXPuJAH. We will also host an in-person training on Wednesday, October 11, from 10:00-11:00am in the Joan H. Gillings Auditorium,... Read more »
This course will cover the features of MAXQDA (version 2022), a software program that supports qualitative data analysis and helps users systematically code, evaluate, and interpret textual data. Its capabilities include coding, memo writing, matrix building, and diagramming. We will demonstrate importing data, applying codes, using demographic variables, running reports, generating analytic matrices and using... Read more »
Come meet the Inclusive Excellence team! Join us for light refreshments, enter to win prizes and discuss new Inclusive Excellence initiatives with the team. Learn about upcoming events and ways... Read more »
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Join us for the Student Activities Fair. Meet all of the Gillings Student Organizations and find out how to get involved! Snacks will be available in the Atrium. Loco Pops will be provided by Gillings Advancement.
This event will bring together speakers from across the country and distinguished researchers within North Carolina for interdisciplinary discussions to explore the nexus of data, methods and applications of geospatial... Read more »
This 2-part (9/26/23 & 9/28/23), 4-hour course will be offered via Zoom, over two mornings. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. Participants will learn how to... Read more »
Come join us for Drinks, Snacks, Games, Prizes, and Fun!
Come join the Office of Student Affairs for drinks, snacks, games, prizes and fun!
UNC Injury Prevention Research Center will be hosting a Visiting Speaker Seminar on Wednesday, September 27 at 2:30pm in Rosenau Hall 133. The seminar will feature a presentation from Dr.... Read more »
If someone is suffering a heart attack or other medical emergency, you offer first aid (and call 911!). What do you do if someone is experiencing a mental health crisis... Read more »
Gillings Student Government and Minority Student Caucus are hosting a Town Hall for the Gillings Student body to express their concerns and thoughts about the events that unfolded earlier this... Read more »
This 2-part (9/26/23 & 9/28/23), 4-hour course will be offered via Zoom, over two mornings. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. Participants will learn how to... Read more »
An opportunity for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus on Thursday, Sept. 28 in the Michael Hooker Research Center, Lower Level Atrium. Additional opportunities will... Read more »
Open houses for non-MPH masters and doctoral programs. Learn more.
COIL courses involve UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and students and peer students at a global partner university. Faculty members at both institutions design collaborative activities for their students lasting at least... Read more »
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Dr. Cassandra Caldwell What Can I do with a PhD? Dr. Cassandra Caldwell returns to Chapel Hill to answer. The Department of Communication welcomes thought leader and scholar Dr. Cassandra... Read more »
This short course is designed to provide participants with fundamentals on how to design, conduct and analyze cognitive interviews. Participants will have the opportunity to practice specific cognitive interviewing techniques,... Read more »
Green Zone training is for faculty, staff, and students who wish to learn more about the military connected student experience. The goals are to train members of the Carolina community to know more about the issues and concerns military connected students face and to identify individuals available to assist this population. Upon completion, participants will... Read more »
An opportunity for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus on Thursday, Oct. 5 in the Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, Atrium Lobby. Additional opportunities will... Read more »
Open houses for MPH degree programs. Learn more.
Learn more about our degree programs through departmental sessions, connect with faculty, staff, students, and community resources, tour the School of Public Health, and hear from our admissions team about... Read more »
Ruy Manrique is a PhD student at UNC’s Department of Sociology and a predoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center. He is also part of the team of graduate student consultants for the Odum Institute Stats Desk. Ruy has ample experience as an applied statistician and data analyst. Contact Jill Stevens with questions.
The Department of Maternal and Child Health presents a guest lecture by Iheoma U. Iruka, PhD, entitled "Attending to the Role of Racism and Cultural Wealth on Child and Family... Read more »
Join UNC's Office of Research Development (ORD) for an in-person interdisciplinary networking event focusing on Women's Health. Connect with fellow researchers, discuss projects, future directions, and funding opportunities. Share one-slide... Read more »
The Gillings School is hosting an in-person training on Wednesday, October 11, from 10:00-11:00am in the Joan H. Gillings Auditorium, 133 Rosenau. This training is lead by Sgt. James David... Read more »
The UNC Injury Prevention Research Center’s “Connect, Empower, Prevent” IVP Webinar Series returns for it’s second iteration October 11th, 2023 from 12 - 12:30pm with a presentation from Nidhi Sachdeva who will be presenting on “Connecting With Local Governments And Empowering Communities To Prevent Drug Overdose”. Registration is free and open to the public, so... Read more »
An opportunity for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus on Thursday, Oct. 12 in the Genetic Medicine Research Building, Atrium Lobby Additional opportunities will be... Read more »
This short course is designed to provide participants with fundamentals on how to design, conduct, and analyze cognitive interviews. Participants will have the opportunity to practice specific cognitive interviewing techniques,... Read more »
Complex problems need complexity-aware methods. Systems Thinking, one such method, is a structured approach to learning about complex problems that engages diverse perspectives in developing visual representations of emerging understanding that can be tested and used as the foundation for planning action. In this workshop, you will be introduced to Systems Thinking, learn how to... Read more »
